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Michael Clenshaw Author

Michael Clenshaw describes himself as a ‘people person’ and also a ‘seeker’. Originally born in South London during the Second World War, he went to school in Battersea and Wimbledon before working in the City of London for 10 years in a French bank. He subsequently completely changed his lifestyle and dropped out of a conventional career and took off to rural Sussex where he became a milkman, a job that he came to love. It was here that he first experienced synchronicity in his life. He coupled this new career with a dual interest in antiques. His hobbies included amateur dramatics which led to him meeting his future wife at the age of 40. He then practised as a ‘magic man’ entertaining at children’s parties for many years together with his wife Gill, who accompanied on guitar. Michael also worked on a military aerodrome as a security policeman after which at the age of 65 he co-ordinated over 30 voluntary drivers taking elderly people to hospital for 10 years. This is his first book.